The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


minute;. at years, 1907 from 16 to 10, so; at
manhood, rs; old age 60.
THE most remarkable echo known is that in
the castle of Simonetta, two miles from Milan
1t reports the sound of pistol sixty times.
HELENA, NJ. t. claims to be the richest city of
its size in the United States The actual capital
employed in establishments in the city Is &c.
100000
THE highest denomination of United States
legal tender notes is Sl0000 No bills of the
value OF 100000 have ever been issued in this
| country.
A CoRoNER's JURY in Preston, Conn. forlnd
that Nathaniel Eldrcdgc came to his death
from heart disease, precipitated by his being,
choked."'
A NEW railroad is to be built in equatorial
Africa, crossing the continent from Loanda,
Lower Guinea, to some Portuguese port in
Mozambique
AN ALBINo squirrel was captured at Cameron,
Barron county, Wis, which, though of the red
squirrel species, is pure white, not a colored
hair appearing.
THE BICYCLE law of Oregon requires bicycle
riders to stop 100 yards from any person going
in the opposite direction with a team and re-
main stationary until that team has passed.
THE largest belt ever made in New England
will be exhibited at the Mechanics fair in Bos
ton. 1t is three ply, 4 feet wide. 100 feet long,
weighs $50 pounds, and 100 hides were used in
making it,
A HANDSOME HOUSEHOLD EDITION of the entire
works of Dickens has been commenced by Messrs.
Cohen Brothers, of Arnheim and Nimeguen.
under the title of "Geillustreerde Werken van
Charles Dickens voor het Huisgezin."
A FAvoRTTE CAROLINA DISH is new sugar beet
pudding. The beets are boiled tender but cut into
dice mixed with custard Of milk and eggs
seasoned with pepper and salt baked in pud-
ding dish and served as hot vegetable
QUIcKLIME is the best thing imaginable to save
books from the ill-effects of damp small
vessel full of lime placed near a bookcase is
better than a blazing fire for this purpose
The lime must be changed every two or three
days.
THE widow Alta Arnold is the Nina Van Zandt,
of Council Bluffs, la. She has recently married
an ex-drlrm major who is under sentence for five
years for theft. The contracting parties
clasped hands through the bars when the knot
was tied.
SWITZERLAND can put a well-equipped army of
zoe, 900 men on the frontiers in ten days This
means that about per cent. of the population
of this little republic of 100000 people are pre-
pared at an hours notice to spring to arms in
its defense.
AT recent bull fght in Coahuilla, Mex. the
captain of the bull fighters undertook to kill Il Q
bull while seated in a chair. Either the man
made a mistake in taking his position or the
animal swerved from his course after beginning
his charge, for the captain was struck under the
chin by one of the bulls horns and died in q
few moments
HONEY will be high this year. The three lead
ing honey producing States, Illinois, Wisconsin
and Michigan have absolutely no honey at all
and in many parts of these States the bees are
being fed on sugar to keep them from starv
inur Inst anf TO &ln
East by the carload this year they have scarcely
enough for home consumption.
In a sandpit near Omaha two enormous teeth
have been dug up. The naturalist who tells the
story of their discovery says that they must
have belonged to some animal that was at least
six times as large as the modern elephant, -
and that ate timber as a steady diet. Maybe
the existence of such an animal accounts for
the vast prairieS of the West, and that he
starved to death when the supply of timber
gave out
IT is well understood that a cold sensation
reaches consciousness more rapidly than one of
warmth The exact time required to perceive
each has lately been measured by DR.. Gold
schneider, of Berlin. Contact with a cold point
was felt on the face after 3l.5, on the arm after
IS, on the abdomen after % and on the knee
after 25 hundredths of second. From hot
point the sensation was felt on the same surface
after 10, "a, 62 and 70 hilndredths' of a second
respectively. This great time difference has an
important bearing on the theory of skin senSa-
tionS
The Duke of st. Adams receives a965 per
year as Master of the hawks, G200 for four fall
coneCs, $500 for provision of hawks, and
f1S2 los. for pigeons hens and other meats
The office was given by James ii. to the
ancestors of the Duke, and the family has kept
it ever since. The Marquis of Downshire fills
the post, to which active duties were no doubt
formerly attached, of constable of the Fort of
Hillsborough, County Down. The salary of the
constable is a mere trfe, Is I'D per diem but he
also receives an allowance of 31S2 los per
annum in order to provide the ample number of
twenty wardenS at Cd per diem each.
THE Otoe Indians and many whites about Red
Rock, the Otoe agency in Idaho Territory, are
mourning for Sunnatonna, chief and police
man, who recently died. Sunnatonna was a
clean and tasteful Indian. He had a pleasant
face and smile for every one. The clerk had
given him pair of alligator slippers in exchange
for pair of moccasns. Slmnatonna's wife had
made him q dressing gown out of curtain
calico, and with these signs of civilization and
with his clearly habits and genial disposition
Sunnatonna was beloved by mora than the wife
whom he left to mourn for him, and he will be
missed by others than his immediate kinsfolk
THERE is strong feeling against the Protest
ants in the City Of Mexico. The Catholic Bishop
of that place has forbidden his people, nnder
pain of accommodation, to sell any of the nee
essary articles or tools for their buildings or
other establishments to Professionals or persons
of any other sect; to give them personal help.
such as that given by masons, blacksmths car
penterS, etc. to advise them or favor any of
their undertakings. 1t is equally forbidden to
send boys girls to their schools to receive the
pamphlets or books which they distribute: to
treat with them on religion, even though it be to
combat them, without the express permission of
the Bishop;to attend their ceremonies of Worship
and visit their establishments, though il be
merely from curiosity.
ENGINEER Tom CoNLoN of the Peoria. Decatur
and Evansville, who was pulling the passen
ger train that barely escaped being wrecked
at Mount Pulaski few days ago, has had
four or five narrow escapes lately. Near
that had been blown across the track and threw
it a considerable distance. but the engine held
the track A few months after he struck an
immense tree that had been blown across the
track during storm No damage resulted ex-
cept stoving-in the front of the engine Apcin
he ran over rail from which two feet had been
broken out, but the train went over safely at
the rate of forty miles an hour. On another &C.
casion he fell through high bridge with his en-
CINE and twenty cars, but escaped serious in.
jury.
AN intelligent and practical builder states it
as the result of his experience and observation
that mortar in the interior walls especially if il
be what is called rich" mortar, is liable never
to harden, but to retain its soft consistency
even for centuries: but this con only be the case
where the interior of the wall is hermeticailv
sealed against the external air which method
both arrests evaporation and shuts Off the